Encouraged
behavior
 
Every member of Turbine Kreuzberg is expected to be considerate of their teammates across the entire company, and contribute to a collaborative, positive, and healthy environment, in which we can all succeed. More specifically:

• Be supportive. Offer to help and support your colleagues both proactively and responsively. If you see someone struggling or otherwise in need of assistance, provide it. If someone approaches you looking for help, be generous. For example, if a teammate seems to be stuck or having a rough day, offer to have tea and a chat. Value others’ right to privacy, as well as your own. Everyone is free to share only what they feel comfortable sharing.
   

• Be inclusive. Go out of your way to include people in everyday interaction, including meetings, team jokes, shared memes, and conversations. Speak plainly and avoid unnecessary acronyms or jargon that not everyone may have an understanding of. Inclusive communication can be as simple as always using a language that everyone can understand, in most cases English. To be considerate, work towards adopting gender-neutral pronouns and terms like “person days” or “partner” instead of their gendered equivalents in your every-day speech.
   

• Be mindful of different personality types, backgrounds, and skill sets in your interactions. Your approach may not necessarily be someone else’s, but lead to similarly exceptional results. Differences make us better.
   

• Be collaborative. Involve your teammates in brainstorms, sketching sessions, code reviews, planning documents, and the like. Share early and ask for others’ input. Recognize that in addition to asking for feedback, you are similarly expected to give it.
   

• Be generous in both giving and accepting feedback: Good feedback is kind, respectful, clear, and constructive, and focused on goals and values rather than based on personal preferences. You are expected to give and receive feedback with growth in mind.
   

• Be kind. Be polite and friendly in all forms of communication – especially remote communication via text such as Slack and E-Mail, where misunderstandings are more likely to happen. Use video conferencing when it makes sense; face-to-face discussion benefits from all kinds of social cues that may go missing in other forms of communication.
   

• Be confident in your own capabilities and expertise. Everyone working at Turbine has the team’s trust that they are the right person to do their job. Help to reinforce that confidence in others.
   

• Be honest in interactions with teammates, while keeping things respectful.
   

• Be an ally. Speak up for others when you feel they may need it, such as in situations of misconduct or offense. Ask your teammates directly how you can provide support, whether via a one-to-one conversation, by including the rest of your team, or reaching out to the trust team. Always remember: mistakes are human. Give others the opportunity to grow.
   

Unacceptable
behavior
 
Turbine Kreuzberg is committed to providing a welcoming and safe environment for all. Discrimination and harassment are expressly prohibited. Furthermore, we want to appeal to you to refrain from any behavior or language that is unwelcoming. We want to address these patterns explicitly as unacceptable:

• Looking down on a teammate if they’re not familiar with something. It’s always acceptable to say “I don’t know” or “I don’t understand.” The only mistake is not to ask. Please don’t sneer when someone isn’t familiar with a tool, person, place or process, but explain and move on. This applies to both technical and non-technical things.
   

• Exclusionary language and behavior. Be careful in the choice of your words, even if it seems like it’s a small thing. Sexist, racist and other exclusionary jokes are not appropriate and will not be tolerated under any circumstances. This also applies to memes and other visual media, which may be perceived as hurtful by others. In your everyday speech and writing, avoid exclusionary language. One simple example can be substituting “hi guys” with “hi folks” or “hi everyone” instead.
   

• All -isms. A great deal of exclusionary behavior takes the form of subtle -isms, or microaggressions — small things that make others feel unwelcome. Regardless of intent, these comments can have a significant demeaning impact on teammates. If something like this happens: please don’t say, “That wasn’t sexist” or “You’re being too sensitive.” Similarly, please don’t pile on someone who made a mistake. It’s not a big deal to mess up — just learn from it and move on.
   

• Unsolicited commenting on appearance. Some things we choose and can’t or don’t want to change, others we have no say over at all. Here’s a good rule of thumb: if a person doesn’t ask for your opinion on their appearance, best don’t offer it.